It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ericlindellnyc on 2025-04-25 00:21:35.

Here's a discussion. It's a bit unnerving to see so many questions raised about RMLINT's reliability -- since I've deleted literally millions of presumed duplicates with it. Some still say it's safe. Thoughts? Thanks.

Here's the URL . . Rmlint has been deleted from the Arch repository. https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1h34h2r/rmlint_deleted/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/V1nc3egA on 2025-04-24 23:08:58.

I'm looking for image viewer for Windows 10 that lets me zoom in and out with the mouse wheel and, most importantly, allows me to navigate between images by clicking on the left or right side of the image (or window). Basically, I'm hoping for navigation similar to what you see on sites like MangaDex, where clicking anywhere on the left half of the window goes to the previous image and clicking the right half goes to the next one. I don't want to rely on small navigation buttons at the top or only keyboard shortcuts — the clickable areas should be large and easy to use, ideally covering the full left and right sides of the window.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Admirable-Energy-931 on 2025-04-24 22:56:24.

Hello, I'm bad at programming, but love hoarding data. Anybody know how to download/read wikis like the Minecraft wiki (not the fandom one) for offline use, easily? Idk where to start and want to learn, so I can do it with other wikis I happen to stumble across and enjoy.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Farajo001 on 2025-04-24 22:31:01.

Been thinking about adding them to a main personal computer since apparently Mushkin and TeamGroup don't produce theirs anymore it seems like. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DVBQZJF7?psc=1

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jellyfish5959 on 2025-04-24 21:05:01.

I’m inclined to buy 4 x WD60EFPX (6TB Red Plus) drives to populate a DAS, but am concerned about potential thumping sounds emitted by the PWL mechanism. I previously owned a 4TB Black that was nearly silent, but had those thumping sounds every 5 seconds, which really annoyed me. So, to owners of the WD60EFPX, how has your experience been? If this model really has WPL, I may consider the WD120EFBX instead, since it is helium-filled and probably quieter overall (even though it certainly has WPL).

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/EvanBindz on 2025-04-24 22:00:36.

I just got two drives and using them in a dock for now. I'm concerned about heat and want to get a good enclosure with fan. Ideally looking for around 4 bays. Would prefer something very sturdy. I also like the idea of something daisy chainable for future expansion, and something physically stackable without obstructing the fans.

Here are some I'm looking at, but I'm very open to suggestions:

|| || |WAVLINK 4-Bay USB-C Enclosure|https://www.newegg.com/wavlink-rapidfire-h2r-hdd-ssd-2-5-3-5/p/0VN-0069-00048?item=9SIA6PFKEA1610| |CENMATE 4-Bay Aluminum Enclosure|https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DD3GZSGJ/| |MAIWO 4-Bay USB-C Enclosure|https://www.amazon.com/MAIWO-Enclosure-Cooling-Storage-Expansion/dp/B0D28Q187R| |SYBA SY-ENC50119 8-Bay Enclosure|https://www.amazon.com/Syba-Swappable-Drive-External-Enclosure/dp/B07MD2LNYX| |ORICO 4-Bay USB 3.2 Gen 2 Enclosure|https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Enclosure-Aluminum-Expansion-3-5-inchs/dp/B0D1BB6VPK / | |TERRAMASTER D4-320 4-Bay Enclosure|https://www.amazon.com/TERRAMASTER-D4-320-External-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B0CTTL9R7Z|

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Numerous-Cranberry59 on 2025-04-24 21:23:57.

Dear fellow hoarders,

is the NetApp DS4246 still recommended after all the years?

I wonder if it works with latest SATA drives with 20TB and more.

And do I need to reformat all drives with 520 byte to be NetApp compatible or do normal 512 byte also work fine?

Thanks so much.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/XanaAdmin on 2025-04-24 19:15:29.

Flickr is disabling original image downloads for non-pro members. I'm concerned that non-pro uploader's content can't be downloaded by pro members (you pay, they didn't, so you can't get original images). If not now then expect so later. AI re-re-downloading the world has ruined another service, loosing images that don't exist anywhere else.

I wrote a targeted scraper for all of a user's photos. Good enough for the couple of users you care about. https://github.com/TheLQ/flikr-scraper

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tenclowns on 2025-04-24 16:46:17.

I guess this is overkill as the drives are designed to handle vibrations and will self-correct when vibrations get too high using their own internal accelerometers.

But it seems like a way to test your setup and just have that peace off mind that your rack isn't slowing down or causing increased strain on your HDDs. Along with it just being a fun experiment

I'm don't know any coding and I'm not great with command lines. So I was looking for a setup that is more plug and play.

There probably is a range of vibrations that the accelerometer should be most sensitive to because they cause the most issues or reverberates more in chassis

-Picoquake seems like a neat little device, but it seems like it doesn't come with a GUI. Although it might be possible to import the data from it into another software.

https://www.tindie.com/products/plab/picoquake-usb-vibration-sensor/

https://picoquake.plab.si/

-ADXL345 with USB connection (Creality ADXL345 etc.)

-Phidget, seems to have a GUI control panel

https://www.phidgets.com/?prodid=1269

https://www.phidgets.com/docs/Phidget_Control_Panel

Have anyone tried to do this? Any suggestions of what I should focus on do this successfully?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AlternateWitness on 2025-04-24 16:14:34.

I’m moving to a place with 1 internet option, unfortunately. No satellite providers, nothing wireless, just the company that made the contract with the city to put their cables down: Xfinity.

I’m moving from Verizon’s home Internet, which is just one plan with unlimited data. Xfinity in my area seems to work with 1.2TB of data on most of their plans, but if you want “unlimited data” you’ll have to pay a bit more, and have slower speeds.

I’m a bit of a data hoarder, I have about 16TB on my main computer, and I upload and download from the Internet all the time, as well as have a cloud backup of my files. I also run a media server that my family uses externally. I can work with 1.2TB, but it’d be inconvenient. I was wondering, how much is unlimited data to you for your needs?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Poptartart1 on 2025-04-24 14:49:55.

Hello everyone!

I've been hard at work digitizing and downloading all my CDs and bandcamp music onto my HDD and my NAS, trying to go through all my music and editing the Metadata so it displays how I like.

However my collection is rather large, and I've noticed albums popping up that I must have missed adding the Cover art to the folder.

I was hoping someone would have an easy solution to my issue, searching for any folder on my drive that does not contain "Cover.PNG/Cover.jpg"

I am on windows 10, so ideally it would work through the file Explorer or some other windows compatible program.

Thank you and apologies if I have used the wrong flair

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/I_Thranduil on 2025-04-24 14:43:01.

Hi folks! I just ordered the 2 bay ugreen NAS and settled on a 20tb Toshiba. I plan on creating some content down the line, but until then I won't need any redundancy as I'll be storing disposable data.

Is there a way to create a Raid 1 setup with just 1 member, and add the second member when I decide to do something more serious? Or are there more ways to do it? I may change the default OS if it's necessary.

Storage is getting cheaper by the day and in 1 year it could be 1/3 less than the price today. My only experience is with old hardware Raid where both disks had to be erased on Raid initialization, and I need some 2025 advice.

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/muffinBadger on 2025-04-24 14:02:08.

I might sound like I've been living under a rock, but recently I went shopping for a 1TB HDD hard drive, and was surprised they still cost around $50~70, depending on the brand.

I remember paying about the same price for 1TB 8 years ago!

Back in the days, the "price/GB" ratio used to be dropping every year like crazy. For example, if you wanted a 256GB top-of-the-line hard drive, just wait 1 year and the price would drop 40%, etc.

How come we're not seeing price drops anymore? Is the technology plateaued? Is the demand shifting to SSDs?

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Gords78 on 2025-04-24 14:01:16.

Have decided to start archiving all the familys pics. Finally settled on my settings ,raw 600dpi so i can just get on with the scanning and worry about cropping in better software later.

After testing with the driver software AND VueScan it seems that my scanner cant scan the 1st few mm of the platter on ANY side (larger margins on 2 sides but this is by design) and trying to place the pictures square a little bit away from a side AND square is proving to become very labour intentive/annoying.

I know i have auto skew available but experience of rotating bitmap images over the years tells me this isnt a great idea, at low resolutions it looks horendous.

Any tips for moving forward please?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ducbao414 on 2025-04-24 12:54:33.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Based_Mammoth634 on 2025-04-24 10:56:25.

I keep seeing people talking about how it's not worth buying from serverpartdeals in europe because of the taxes.

People say the taxes are calculated at checkout or are vague about it, but at checkout I see no taxes added to the price and there's no way I can figure out by myself anything beyond that.

Does that mean I will have nothing extra to pay, or will I have a surprise when they arrive?

I am currently in France.

The price is about right for used HDDs, but if I have to add any taxes it will really not be worth it.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/klain42 on 2025-04-24 09:41:42.

Hello,

First time posting. I’m looking for question data that help to define a human personality. It is my understanding that the HEXACO personality test is more accurate than MBTI personality tests so I already have this data and the Dark Triad personality.” Tests.

However I need to find datasets that have a series of questions to better refine and define personalities.

Please can you advise on where to find this.

Many Thanks K

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ytrph on 2025-04-24 07:45:26.

Hey everyone,

I’m running into serious vibration issues with my 28TB Seagate Exos drives (HAMR tech). I’ve got 12 of them installed in a standard JBOD chassis (27” rack), and when I stress the pool (ZFS), I start getting tons of errors. I suspect it’s due to vibrations between the drives.

I’ve got a second setup with the same drives (only 6 though) in another chassis that has proper HDD dampening, and I’m seeing zero issues there.

So now I’m looking for recommendations for a new JBOD enclosure with at least 12 bays (or more), suitable for 27” rack mounting, with good vibration dampening for each drive.

Any suggestions or experiences with enclosures that handle these big drives well? Bonus points for quiet operation and solid build quality.

Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ok-Security-1260 on 2025-04-23 13:48:33.

I’ve heard of LTO 9s which would be approximately $2070 but why are the reader/writer drives so much more expensive? Are there any cheap ones or alternatives? Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/remodeus on 2025-04-24 01:56:19.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ViewCorrect8768 on 2025-04-23 22:20:25.

Hello friends,

I will be traveling from the USA to Saudi Arabia. Last time I went, they searched my computer, phone, and external hard drives and I let them do it because I was scared. This time, I intend to save my personal files to a cloud service called "Filen" and place dummy data on my devices so they can eat shit.

MY PLAN: I wish to encrypt my files using a software called "Cryptomator" before putting them on the cloud. Once I cross the border, I plan to use public wifi to download my files back to my devices where they will stay for the remainder of my trip. My threat model does not involve random searches, I just need to get across the border. I only need to encrypt and store 2TB of data on the cloud but I want to make sure I run it past you all to see if I am doing it right.

QUESTION: I am getting overwhelmed because it has taken about 5 hours to upload an encrypted 40GB chunk of data to the cloud. Is this normal? Also, this got me thinking that I will not have the time to sit around in public wifi locations for days on end while I download my data from the cloud. Should I be compressing these files into ZIP's before encrypting, after encrypting, or something else?

Thank you for your help with this.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/durelable on 2025-04-23 22:12:02.

I need a new external HD for Time Machine back ups for my MacBook Pro. I was going to go the WD Passport route, but I'd prefer to have a more rugged case because I travel a lot. So, I thinking to get an internal HD and stick it in an enclosure.

However, I'm finding a lot of SSD-specific enclosures on Amazon, and I'm wondering if they work equally well for HDD's? Like this one: hhttps://www.amazon.ca/Sabrent-Enclosure-External-Aluminum-EC-SNVE/dp/B08RVC6F9Y/?th=1

I did do a search for this question and haven't found an answer... yet.

TIA!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jacrava on 2025-04-23 20:54:29.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Cyanide_kcn on 2025-04-23 20:42:05.

There is https://sc2casts.com/ but sadly most of the stuff that was hosted on various platforms has since been deleted or gone missing. I didn't have the capabilities to save full length videos at the time and nowadays I'm craving for that nostalgia and would like to help archiving this birth of modern eSports.

If anyone has some of these tourneys saved locally or can link me to an active torrent, I'd be elated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hcin_b on 2025-04-23 19:23:58.

Hey everyone,

I’m building a personal media archive that will need to handle a large number of high-quality video files. My main tools are Sonarr and Radarr, and I'm trying to decide between different storage options that are both scalable and cost-effective.

Currently, I’m considering two options:

1. A mounted remote storage box (like Hetzner Storage Box via CIFS/NFS/WebDAV)
2. S3-compatible object storage (like Wasabi, Backblaze, or Hetzner’s Object Storage) mounted via rclone.

The main goals are:

• Storing and accessing large files (4GB+)
• Ensuring that the download and move processes from Sonarr/Radarr work smoothly
• Supporting many read requests later on (possibly from multiple clients)

What would you recommend as the most reliable and efficient setup? If object storage is a better option, are there best practices for mounting and integrating it with media management tools like Sonarr/Radarr?

Any advice, personal experience, or configuration tips would be really appreciated. I know this may sound like a niche use-case, but I’m sure others here have tried similar setups.

Thanks in advance!